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Big
Week for DevHub as They Celebrate a T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Award Nomination, New
Partnerships With Meebo & Priceline and Passing 1
Million Visitors on Their Network
DevHub,
who is one of only two companies
that were nominated this week for a T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
Award for "Best New Monetizing Solution,"
tells us they reached a couple of special
milestones this month (the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Award winners
will be announced at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C
New York conference coming up October
26-29. Trellian's Above.com was also
nominated in this category). DevHub was also one of the
five companies we profiled in our March
2009 Cover Story called "The Next
Big Thing in Domain Monetization?: New Companies Are
Making the Dream of Affordable Mass Development a
Reality".
Company
co-founder Mark Michael told us the company reached
profitability August 8 and hit a new high water mark for
traffic with over 1.1 million visitors across their
network. "Within six months of
launching, we have struck a number of
exclusive partnerships and integrated a slew of
monetization tools including: job listings, local business
listings, property listings, all 8 of the major affiliate
product networks and premium text ads," Michael said.
On
Wednesday the company launched their most recent partnership with
Meebo
which enables site creators on the DevHub platform to
Mark
Michael
DevHub Co-Founder and Senior VP
instantly drag-and-drop chat functionality on their sites.
The same day they also launched a partnership with Priceline
enabling
travel-related sites created on DevHub to easily incorporate hotel, airline and car
rental offers.
Michael
said more new features will be coming in the next few
weeks including their DevHub Community. "It
will enable ‘DevHeads,’ to communicate and share tips with one
another," Michael said. "We
designed DevHub to be a dynamic platform so that as our
publishers demand more we have a platform they
can scale with."
After
launching in February, DevHub has grown
to an active base of over 25,000. Michael
said "This community of
publishers use DevHub's site creation tools and
monetization modules (of which DevHub has exclusive
partners and
premium revenue streams) to easily create
niche-focused topical sites, which publishers receive a
majority share of all revenues generated from their
sites."
Michael
added, "As opposed to site building tools for a community, a small
business, or vanity-personal website (already addressed by
the likes of a Weebly or Yola), the DevHub platform is
optimized for publishers who want to create sites that
attract commercial intent-based users. These type of
users are much more valuable than the casual Internet
surfer as they are looking for information on or are ready
to purchase a service or product, resulting in a higher
likelihood of revenue-generation activity (think revenue
per user difference between Facebook versus Google)."
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